It still surprises me how light-hearted this series is, but really: I’m learning something new with every episode here. This episode in particular contained a lot of comic relief. And almost no romance whatsoever.
Instead, this is about two poets and their relationship, as they discuss poems and love poems. I did not expect that, but at the same time I find it a nice touch that the creators are trying to link all of these poems together. In Chihayafuru they all just seemed like random poems that were compiled, written by random poets, but not only do all of them have backgrounds, the poets also knew each other and influenced each other. There are poems that fit one author much more than others. That’s fascinating right there.
I’m just not sure what the point is to put Fujiwara no Teika in all kinds of modern situations. This time he was on the beach under a parasol and hitting watermelons. And don’t get me wrong, their explanations are quite useful (especially when they started talking about criticism)… but it still feels weird.
Rating: (Great)
It’s best not to look at Fujiwara as a historical figure, rather a lead-in narrator in kind of a parallel universe(perhaps the afterlife) Kind of like what Ron Strerling or Charles Aidman used to do for Twilight Zone
Yes it was definitely a nice change of pace.